How To Install pandoc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pandoc
pandoc is:
Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-mode, txt2tags, Word Docx, ODT, and Textile, and it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX (including rendering as plain PDF or beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, DocBook, OPML, TEI, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, ZimWiki, Textile, groff man pages, GNU Texinfo, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, and several kinds of HTML/javascript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js).
In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer.
This package contains the pandoc tool.
PDF output via PDFLaTeX requires the package texlive-latex-recommended.
- XeLaTeX additionally requires the package texlive-xetex.
- LuaTeX additionally requires the package texlive-luatex.
- content with YAML metadata additionally requires the package texlive-latex-extra.
PDF output via ConTeXt requires the package context.
PDF output via wkhtmltopdf requires the package wkhtmltopdf.
There are three methods to install pandoc on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pandoc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pandoc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pandoc
Install pandoc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pandoc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pandoc
Install pandoc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pandoc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pandoc
How To Uninstall pandoc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pandoc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pandoc
Uninstall pandoc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pandoc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pandoc
Remove pandoc Configurations and Data
To remove pandoc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pandoc
Remove pandoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pandoc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pandoc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
